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The confluence of three technologies—personal computers, music notation software, and the World Wide Web—has made do-it-yourself publishing an attractive and practical career choice for a significant number of contemporary composers. Purchasing from these artists' personal Web sites is typically the only way to acquire their self-published scores. Cross-checking the composers' Web-based sales catalogs with WorldCat holdings indicates that self-published, self-distributed music—in contrast to scores that are being published and distributed through established mainstream channels—is largely being overlooked and underserved by libraries. Libraries must develop new routines appropriate to this distinctive new form of digital publication that would allow for the identification, selection, and acquisition of self-published and self-distributed scores. In lieu of such routines there is an inexorable danger that libraries will miss the only opportunity they may have to preserve and document—thoroughly and faithfully—the musical culture of our time.